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2006
Whose working lives fell in 2006. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 2006, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Elon Musk1 decades - 2
Justin Trudeau1 decades - 3
Winona Ryder3 decades - 4
Mark Wahlberg2 decades - 5
Marco Rubio1 decades - 6
Pep Guardiola1 decades - 7
Snoop Dogg2 decades - 8
Jeremy Renner0 decades - 9
Jared Leto0 decades - 10
Ewan McGregor3 decades - 11
Sacha Baron Cohen1 decades - 12
Dolores O'Riordan0 decades - 13
Ricky Martin3 decades - 14
Christina Applegate0 decades - 15
Julian Assange1 decades - 16
Amy Poehler1 decades - 17
Sofia Coppola2 decades - 18
Shannen Doherty0 decades - 19
Denise Richards0 decades - 20
Carlo Acutisnot measured- - 21
Lance Armstrong2 decades - 22
David Tennant1 decades - 23
Paul Bettany0 decades - 24
Nathan Fillion0 decades - 25
Sean Astin0 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.